The app I use (Primal for android) isn't giving me proper notifications on when something is liked or commented on and I've been away from the desktop for some time now so me apologies.
Oh yeah, it wouldn't be a big deal to view it in such a way as just entertainment but I'm still on the phase where I think the future of the country is riding on it.
Perhaps that is too melodramatic but idk. It's what I've always been told.
Would like to take it more with a grain of salt.
"Sexual desire is even more closely related to gluttony than are the passions of anger and dejection mentioned above. Nature herself has indicated the intimate connection between the two by placing the organs of sexual intercourse immediately below the belly. If lust is weak, it is because the belly has been made to go in want; while if lust is easily excited, it is from the belly that it derives its strength." - St Neilos the Ascetic
#christr #Christianity
#Ramaswamy is absolutely terrific here. I match up with him more than I do with #Trump and the guy is a real intellectual. He's my new favorite politician on the right.
>"The fact that the defendant is engaged in a political campaign is not going to allow him any greater or lesser latitude than any defendant in a criminal case."
Absolutely serious baloney here.
#Trump is running for the most important office in the world and is facing criminal cases based on novel legal theories that were invented by a human rights court clown to get him and they're imposing regular, business as usual restrictions?
#SCOTUS needs to step in.
Vaguely amazing that there are still places in the Lemmysphere talking about the need to defederate from Exploding Heads.
Thought that we ran out of those long ago.
The diplomatic meeting came two weeks after the Russian invasion of #Ukraine, which was launched as Khan was en route to Moscow — a visit that reportedly infuriated Washington.
During the meeting, Lu claimed that the stance seems to be the position of the PM and “if the no-confidence movement against him succeeds, all will be forgiven by Washington.”
The document further shows that Lu warned that, if the situation was not resolved, #Pakistan would be marginalised by its Western allies.
He added that if Khan remains in office, his country could face isolation from Europe and the US.
That's an average of 135 suicides per day in the United States.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/suicide-deaths-reached-record-high-180406897.html?guccounter=1
Strange that a lot of clients don't offer link previews
I wonder why that is. It would seem like an obvious feature to deploy early on.
The absolute state of Britain: calling in half a dozen officers to manhandle an autistic juvenile over such a remark.
What's the chances that Mr. Elvis Chan is going to face any disciple for making false statements about the #Biden laptop?
Probably roughly similar to the chances that Pres. Trump will win the #2024 election.
Throw up all the sanctions you want, but there are workarounds.
#Iran #China
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/07/30/708001/Iran-crude-oil-exports-China-tripled-since-2020
Originally heard these numbers on a System Update episode a few days ago - good to see them in print:
>Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine.
>Overall, 55% say the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine vs. 45% who say Congress should authorize such funding. And 51% say that the US has already done enough to help Ukraine while 48% say it should do more. A poll conducted in the early days of the Russian invasion in late February 2022 found 62% who felt the US should have been doing more.
>Partisan divisions have widened since that poll, too, with most Democrats and Republicans now on opposing sides of questions on the US role in Ukraine.
It's absolutely the case that we are approaching a breaking point in the Ukraine war -- this counteroffensive was really what it was all about, IMO. If the Ukrainians made some progress, it would be a sign that there was hope and much reason for further assistance...
But it is becoming more apparent that that isn't how it's going to go down. More support for the war effort potentially just means more death.
#Ukraine #Russia #War
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/cnn-poll-ukraine/index.html
>This study tested the greater male variability hypothesis in creative thinking with a Chinese student sample in Mainland China. The Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production (TCT-DP) was administered to 627 Chinese adolescent boys (n = 332) and girls (n = 295). Results using the boy/girl variance ratio (VR) generally supported the hypothesis that boys have greater variability than girls in creativity test performance. However, results using the boy/girl ratios from different regions of the creativity score distribution revealed a pattern of male superiority. While boys significantly outnumbered girls in the higher extremes, girls tended to outnumber boys in the central region and the lower extremes. Results from an analysis of the means lent further support to the findings of male superiority.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913003036
>Music which contains drones and is rhythmically still or very slow, called "drone music",[2] can be found in many parts of the world, including bagpipe traditions, among them Scottish pibroch piping; didgeridoo music in Australia, South Indian classical Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music (both of which are accompanied almost invariably by the Tanpura, a plucked, four-string instrument which is only capable of playing a drone); the sustained tones found in the Japanese gagaku[9] classical tradition; possibly (disputed) in pre-polyphonic organum vocal music of late medieval Europe;[10] and the Byzantine chant's ison (or drone-singing, attested after the fifteenth century).[11] Repetition of tones, supposed to be in imitation of bagpipes,[12][13][14][15] is found in a wide variety of genres and musical forms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_music
Nice.
I am in the process of mourning a death and cannot really abide by listening to conventionally structured music, yet I also need something to shut out the ambient sounds and increase concentration.
I am still debating whether or not I should be doing even this, but it feels necessary and I have already gone a week without music.
Right - and there is really something to be said about all forms of hierarchy being a form of division that is unhelpful.
The Catholic Priest, Fr. Chad Ripperger, talked about how the caste system of India is truly Satanic because hell loves hierarchy as it is one of the most efficient ways of creating suffering and injustice.
I am not fully on board with this but decided to comment simply because I am grateful to have found where some of the Christians are plus some of the right...
Not sure how to describe myself economically but I would default towards something like 'national Capitalism.' Ultimately, I believe the state is a necessary evil to protect us not just from petty criminals, but from organized crime - whether this is being done by the mafia or by a corporation.
Fairly remarkable in the sense that we are literally seeing this in a courtroom, but absolutely unsurprising that it is in Portland:
>During closing statements, defense lawyer Michelle Burrows told the jurors that not only does she self-identify as a progressive and “anti-fascist,” she is going to make herself an “I am Antifa” t-shirt to wear after the trial. She told the jury that the negative reputation surrounding Antifa is false and painted the organized militant group as activists that fight for social justice and civil rights, despite their extensive documented history of carrying out acts of violence.
>In defense of Antifa, Burrows told the jury, “Resistance in this country has never been peaceful.”
But I also like the way that she walks it back here, lol:
>However, as she argued before the jurors, Ms. Burrows admitted that the “black clad people” that had physically beaten Andy Ngo were “terrorists.”
OK... So you want to make a tee shirt that represents your affiliation with a group of people who engage in terrorism..?
>The defense attorney went on to claim that journalist Andy Ngo does not have clean hands. She implied that Ngo is also a “doxxer” because he posts publicly available mugshots of the crimes that Antifa-affiliated individuals have committed on his Twitter account, in which he has more than one million followers.
Seeing that the lawyer calculated that, to some degree, people naturally dislike doxing is also something that I find encouraging. Doxing as a tactic may be quite limited as a tactic - eventually there will be enough of a consensus to outright illegalize the process, as is already the case to some degree in California.
Right, but I am not shy about the idea that I think the marketplace should be regulated to some degree. The free market is something of a myth - it doens't exist at all in international trade, which dramatically impacts ALL levels of the market below it...
And this makes me open to the idea of regulating it locally for the benefit of the people.
I worked at a natural history museum for a while - the entomologist we employed constantly blew my mind with tidbits like this. What really gets me is how much diversity there is in the insect kingdom - different parts of even small countries can have wildly different insect biospheres.